diff --git a/dev-python/check-manifest/Manifest b/dev-python/check-manifest/Manifest
index 73cefaefe2d5c..1287ccb6844df 100644
--- a/dev-python/check-manifest/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/check-manifest/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-DIST check-manifest-0.48.tar.gz 34732 BLAKE2B 9142ec4b4fb4ea96662ae5f1335127b2adb2c148e29d287384335e4b15f82597451bd7cfde856e80c485e00de20bd5591551b0e0a8446870c57d7ea3eb658708 SHA512 79df1ef54e2af669ce08b87d3ca9eb58bc02c6541687be11b270a30f83d89982583a470aff2c6bde0454476b27258c268cabfbb0f90c1188212375d0f95328d9
 DIST check-manifest-0.49.gh.tar.gz 35211 BLAKE2B 7a78ee5e1d596801873b683927e60527ffcb81a150fe3b8af588e4f2582136566c23bd6484ab241966063b58d61ef6989308b1ab84194165da6033f538b922c6 SHA512 43d86b656dfd1094991e91d30223a43d9e4f9bdc29de542642d8ea60e3301c25b5dd60183ef822900935323b8de095871014a34b11c271ae9e170113925c2d84
diff --git a/dev-python/check-manifest/check-manifest-0.48.ebuild b/dev-python/check-manifest/check-manifest-0.48.ebuild
deleted file mode 100644
index 1a7b882dcda07..0000000000000
--- a/dev-python/check-manifest/check-manifest-0.48.ebuild
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2023 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{9..11} )
-DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
-inherit distutils-r1
-
-DESCRIPTION="Tool to check the completeness of MANIFEST.in for Python packages"
-HOMEPAGE="
-	https://github.com/mgedmin/check-manifest
-	https://pypi.org/project/check-manifest/
-"
-SRC_URI="https://github.com/mgedmin/${PN}/archive/${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="MIT"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	dev-python/build[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	dev-python/tomli[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-"
-DEPEND="
-	${RDEPEND}
-	test? (
-		dev-python/mock[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
-	)
-"
-
-EPYTEST_DESELECT=(
-	# Need internet
-	tests.py::Tests::test_build_sdist_pep517_isolated
-)
-
-distutils_enable_tests pytest